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Friday, 26 May 2017

Will Donald Trump's character defects imperil the world?

Will Donald Trump's character defects imperil the world?
- In a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, May 23rd, President Donald Trump
boldly asserted that one of the modern world’s most intractable
diplomatic nightmares plaguing and daunting negotiators for decades is
“not as difficult” for this man who put his name on the book, The Art of the Deal (which was actually written by a ghost writer, Tony Schwartz).
“We want to create peace between Israel and the Palestinians. We will
get it done,” Trump said. “We will be working so hard to get it done. I
think there is a very good chance and I think we will.”
The prior day, when conferring
in Jerusalem with Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer,
and other Israeli leaders and U.S. diplomats, Trump betrayed his utter
lack of understanding and apparent lack of interest when he stated that: